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Cheat Sheet: Head

Summary

This page lists various properties of the player head. Use the Table of Contents or your browser's search (Hotkey: Ctrl+F) to quickly find what you're looking for.

Check Cheat Sheet: Character Creator for color values and appearances

Wait, this isn't what I'm looking for!

If you want to edit the player's head, you need meshes and morphtargets.
If you want to make a custom NPC, check NPV - V as custom NPC
You can find much additional information about the player head under NPV: Preparing the head in Blender

Head file paths

The folders contain the entire player head. The minimum amount of meshes rendered is 3 (head, teeth, eyes), and can go up to 13 (fem V)/14 (masc V).

Head file prefixes

Complexions

Every complexion has its own associated texture file. These are sorted by body gender under

base\characters\head\wa\h0_001_wa_c__basehead\textures\h0_000_wa_c__basehead_d0X.xbm
base\characters\head\ma\h0_001_ma_c__basehead\textures\h0_000_ma_c__basehead_d0X.xbm

The files are ending in 01..05. Each complexion has its own appearance in the head mesh, e.g.:

03_ca_senna
03_ca_senna_d02
03_ca_senna_d03
03_ca_senna_d04
03_ca_senna_d05

Skin definitions

Skin materials are defined in the base head .mesh file (while the shape comes from the .morphtarget):

You can find the definitions in the localMaterialBuffer. Each material overrides the following properties locally:

Normal (bump/height map)
Albedo (diffuse/complexion)

All other properties are pulled from a .mi file in the following folder:

Head: material instances

This section only lists .mi files used by the player head. To see which skin is which, check Cheat Sheet: Character Creator -> #skin-tones

About half of these files are shared by NPCs. Editing or replacing these will affect all of Night City!

Freckles / cheek make-up

For a list of freckles and make-up sorted by colour and skin type, see Cheat Sheet: Character Creator -> #cheek-makeup-style

Eyebrows

Every eyebrow option has an associated texture file, normal map, and alpha map.

These files can be found in the following folder:

base/characters/common/character_customisation_items/eyebrows/textures/

Provided below is a table with the eyebrows and their associated texture files.

Cheat Sheet: Hair

Overview of hair related things

Summary

Published: November 04 2022 by @manavortex Last documented update: Oct 06 2024 by

You can find previews of hair styles and -colors under Cheat Sheet: Character Creator

This page will give you an overview about existing hairstyles and their files.

Wait, this is not what I want!

There is a modding guide for how to Replace a hair mod's slot
For a guide on how to add hair to Cyberpunk, check Basic Hairstyle Replacement Tutorial
For a more detailed explanation of the hair shader, see Hair and skin material properties
If you want to change an NPC's hair instead, you can check this or this guide.
To look up hairstyles in more detail, you can use NoraLee's excellent NPV part picker

Find the file by pasting the file name into the . If you get multiple hits, take the one that does not include _fpp_ in its file name, as those are for first person perspective.

Hairstyles by image

Name of meshes by index

These names correspond to the mesh files.

To find a hair's control files, check the next section: #hair-control-files-by-index

Many hairs have different meshes if cyberware_01 is used. In this case, the alternative file name will be given in italics.

All the files below can be found under the following subfolder:

base\characters\common\hair\<hair name default variant>\<hair name as given>.mesh

To quickly find physics-enabled hair, you can use the Wolvenkit Search with the following query:

base\characters\common\hair > .animgraph > _wa_ // female body gender
base\characters\common\hair > .animgraph > _ma_ // male body gender

Colour in files by index

Hair: Control files by index

Hairs and all their components are assigned and defined via .app and .ent files. You can find them in the following folder:

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\appearances\entity\hairs

How to find these files?

The last number in the file name matches the first number in the .mesh file name:

e.g., if you wanted to edit the entity file for female V's hair 28 hh_083_wa__ponytail_01, you could search for

player_base_heads > hairs > hairs_083

hairs_083 > .app > .pwa

Beards

Beards are only used by mascV. Their entity files can be found in this folder:

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\appearances\entity\facial_hairs\

Any .app files are stored under

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\appearances\facial_hairs\

Beard morphtargets and the meshes they pull in can be found in the player's basehead folder:

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\player_man_average

Beard files by index

Beard component names

Any beard uses the same two components, beard and beard_shadow_01.

Beard 01 will only use the shadowbase.

Cheat Sheet: Facial Expressions

Photo Mode

Player photo mode uses one of

base\animations\ui\photomode\photomode_female_facial.anims
base\animations\ui\photomode\photomode_male_facial.anims

Index

Expressions

CNAME keys to activate them

For a guide how to replace photo mode expressions, see here.

AMM facial expressions

The AMM expressions for both body genders use the following file and keys:

base\animations\facial\male_average\interactive_scene\generic_average_male_facial_idle.anims

Courtesy of Maximilium, Pinkydude and Vitum

Expression references for individual NPC files:

johnny__facial_idle_poses

rogue_facial_idle_poses

evelyn_facial_idle_poses

generic_average_female_facial_idle_poses

panam_facial_idle_poses

Cheat Sheet: Hair

Overview of hair related things

Summary

Published: November 04 2022 by @manavortex Last documented update: Oct 06 2024 by

You can find previews of hair styles and -colors under Cheat Sheet: Character Creator

This page will give you an overview about existing hairstyles and their files.

Wait, this is not what I want!

There is a modding guide for how to Replace a hair mod's slot
For a guide on how to add hair to Cyberpunk, check Basic Hairstyle Replacement Tutorial
For a more detailed explanation of the hair shader, see Hair and skin material properties
If you want to change an NPC's hair instead, you can check this or this guide.
To look up hairstyles in more detail, you can use NoraLee's excellent NPV part picker

Find the file by pasting the file name into the . If you get multiple hits, take the one that does not include _fpp_ in its file name, as those are for first person perspective.

Hairstyles by image

Name of meshes by index

These names correspond to the mesh files.

To find a hair's control files, check the next section: #hair-control-files-by-index

Many hairs have different meshes if cyberware_01 is used. In this case, the alternative file name will be given in italics.

All the files below can be found under the following subfolder:

base\characters\common\hair\<hair name default variant>\<hair name as given>.mesh

To quickly find physics-enabled hair, you can use the Wolvenkit Search with the following query:

base\characters\common\hair > .animgraph > _wa_ // female body gender
base\characters\common\hair > .animgraph > _ma_ // male body gender

Femme frame

Masc frame

Colour in files by index

Colour in CC

Name in Files

Hair: Control files by index

Hairs and all their components are assigned and defined via .app and .ent files. You can find them in the following folder:

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\appearances\entity\hairs

How to find these files?

The last number in the file name matches the first number in the .mesh file name:

e.g., if you wanted to edit the entity file for female V's hair 28 hh_083_wa__ponytail_01, you could search for

player_base_heads > hairs > hairs_083

hairs_083 > .app > .pwa

Femme frame

Masc frame

Beards

Beards are only used by mascV. Their entity files can be found in this folder:

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\appearances\entity\facial_hairs\

Any .app files are stored under

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\appearances\facial_hairs\

Beard morphtargets and the meshes they pull in can be found in the player's basehead folder:

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\player_man_average

Beard files by index

Beard component names

Any beard uses the same two components, beard and beard_shadow_01.

Beard 01 will only use the shadowbase.

Cheat Sheet: Head

Summary

This page lists various properties of the player head. Use the Table of Contents or your browser's search (Hotkey: Ctrl+F) to quickly find what you're looking for.

Check Cheat Sheet: Character Creator for color values and appearances

Wait, this isn't what I'm looking for!

If you want to edit the player's head, you need meshes and morphtargets.
If you want to make a custom NPC, check NPV - V as custom NPC
You can find much additional information about the player head under NPV: Preparing the head in Blender

Head file paths

The folders contain the entire player head. The minimum amount of meshes rendered is 3 (head, teeth, eyes), and can go up to 13 (fem V)/14 (masc V).

Head file prefixes

Complexions

Every complexion has its own associated texture file. These are sorted by body gender under

base\characters\head\wa\h0_001_wa_c__basehead\textures\h0_000_wa_c__basehead_d0X.xbm
base\characters\head\ma\h0_001_ma_c__basehead\textures\h0_000_ma_c__basehead_d0X.xbm

The files are ending in 01..05. Each complexion has its own appearance in the head mesh, e.g.:

03_ca_senna
03_ca_senna_d02
03_ca_senna_d03
03_ca_senna_d04
03_ca_senna_d05

Skin definitions

Skin materials are defined in the base head .mesh file (while the shape comes from the .morphtarget):

You can find the definitions in the localMaterialBuffer. Each material overrides the following properties locally:

Normal (bump/height map)
Albedo (diffuse/complexion)

All other properties are pulled from a .mi file in the following folder:

Head: material instances

This section only lists .mi files used by the player head. To see which skin is which, check Cheat Sheet: Character Creator -> #skin-tones

About half of these files are shared by NPCs. Editing or replacing these will affect all of Night City!

File name (use male_head for masc)

Shared with NPCs

Freckles / cheek make-up

For a list of freckles and make-up sorted by colour and skin type, see Cheat Sheet: Character Creator -> #cheek-makeup-style

Eyebrows

Every eyebrow option has an associated texture file, normal map, and alpha map.

These files can be found in the following folder:

base/characters/common/character_customisation_items/eyebrows/textures/

Provided below is a table with the eyebrows and their associated texture files.

Eyebrow

Diffuse Texture

Alpha Mask

Cheat Sheet: E3 Heads

Where to find the E3 marketing assets

Summary

This page tells you where to find those assets from the E3 demonstrations/trailers that CDPR left in the files.

Please note that while there are texture folders, though their folders will be noted, the textures themselves will not be listed here.

Female V

E3 2018 Head

base\characters\main_npc\demo_vicky\h0_001_wa_c__demo_vicky\

base\characters\main_npc\demo_vicky\h0_001_wa_c__demo_vicky\textures

In these folders, you will find the assets used for V as seen in the 43-minute 2018 gameplay demo.

File

Description

2020 Marketing Head

base\characters\head\pwa\h0_000_pwa_c__basehead\

base\characters\head\pwa\h0_000_pwa_c__basehead\textures

These folders contain the V used in the early 2020 marketing materials and "The World of Cyberpunk 2077", the assets here more closely resemble the final game.

Male V

When compared to female V, male V has fewer remaining assets left over from development (mostly 2018 is missing). However, what we saw of male V in the 2019 Deep Dive demo, early 2020 trailers, and "The World of Cyberpunk 2077" remain behind.

2019 Deep Dive/2020 Marketing

base\characters\head\pma\h0_000_pma_c__basehead\

base\characters\head\pma\h0_000_pma_c__basehead\textures

base\characters\head\pma\h0_001_ma_c__player\textures

Note that not everything in the foremost folder will be listed, only what's important. There are simply too many assets to list here, most of which are identical to the final game if not straight duplicates.

Important exception; outside of the above folder, somewhere else in a different folder is a beard mesh that is combined with 3D eyebrows and eyelashes.

base\characters\head\pma\h0_001_ma_c__player\hb_001_ma_c__player.mesh

Textures

Textures for male V here are scattered across two different folders, h0_000_pma_c__basehead and h0_001_ma_c__player respectively.